Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR NEGRO IN THE SOUTH I think that Jeremy Larner's article, "The Negro in the South: Half a Loaf is Ashes" (NL, September 12), is one of the most sensitive and perceptive studies I have...
...industrial expansion being limited by power shortages...
...Therefore: 4. Chamberlain is mistaken when he says that we are "aiding the Communist design of extinguishing liberty throughout the world...
...In two respects only did I criticize the actions of the Italian Socialists in 1924: on the ground that their withdrawal from the chamber left the field to Mussolini, and—with some reservations—on the ground that they were not prepared to become either silent or active parties in a "great coalition" with monarchists and other conservatives, Catholics, Liberals and Democrats, which alone could conceivably have offered an alternative to the Fascist regime...
...2) Could additional capacity be economically used, or would it simply raise the price of power by being unused or underused...
...We could use more of this type of insight...
...Two alternative questions come to mind: 1) Is U.S...
...5. He has ignored the sole point of my first letter which was: Pope Pius XII, Albert Schweitzer, Bertrand Russell and millions of other intelligent human beings who consider the H-bomb loathsome are not motivated by cowardice or "failures of nerve" but by the realization that to drop a large-scale nuclear weapon on an occupied city is to descend to the level of savagery...
...Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...With the first point Ebenstein will certainly agree...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...part of the Socialists and Liberals...
...Actually, I do not share this view...
...The Italian Socialists have often been severely criticized for their failure to take revolutionary action against the Fascist regime when the latter was weakened by the Matteotti crisis...
...CARL LANDAUER...
...JOHN P. ROCHE NUCLEAR DISARMING To sum up my exchange with William Henry Chamberlain: 1. I do not recommend unilateral nuclear disarmament...
...in his book Fascist Italy (1939), Ebenstein himself spoke of "indecision or cowardice" on the THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...In short, Commander Dillon seems very upset about something, but his article fails to show its importance to non-civil engineers...
...I further discussed the question of whether the anti-Fascists should have revolted for the sake of the historical record even in the face of certain defeat...
...Then I took up the question of whether a general strike might have had some chance of success and gave reasons for a negative answer...
...Also, do the Soviets "correctly ascribe [the superior individual productivity of the American worker] to the greater use of electrical power in U.S...
...I only hope he will no longer hold me guilty of partiality for the German Socialists because of my failure to condemn them for their decision not to resist by force the Papen coup of 1932...
...The laborious "proof" that by 1965 "their" line will pass "our" line on the chart labeled "Adjusted Net Industrial Usage of Electrical Power" is simply meaningless...
...CHARLES R. EDSON ITALIAN SOCIALISTS In reviewing my book European Socialism (NL, September 12), William Ebenstein has been very generous, but what he says about my discussion of Italian politics in 1924 is apt to give the reader a wrong impression of my opinion...
...DEAR EDITOR NEGRO IN THE SOUTH I think that Jeremy Larner's article, "The Negro in the South: Half a Loaf is Ashes" (NL, September 12), is one of the most sensitive and perceptive studies I have seen of the awakening of the Southern Negro...
...2. The National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy does not recommend unilateral nuclear disarmament...
...I cannot claim to answer these questions, but they seem much more important than "the race" for the most kilowatts on the graph...
...The reader must gain the impression that I concur in this judgment...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...According to Ebenstein, "Landauer criticizes the Italian Socialists for not having acted against Mussolini's dictatorship after the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti in 1924...
...I would indeed have been inconsistent had I exonerated the Germans while condemning the Italians...
...STEVE ALLEN COLD WAR KILOWATTS I was very disappointed by John G. Dillon's article, "Kilowatts and the Cold War" (NL, September 12...
...industry...
...I can hardly hope the same for the second—and more important—point...
...I have not done the latter: My vote is against the indictment in either case...
...On page 1248 of my book, I said that there was no chance of success for an anti-Fascist revolution in 1924, and that the anti-Fascists, "from a rational point of view . . . were right in not attempting the impossible...
...Waltham, Mass...
...Accused as they are of "indecision or cowardice" in an historical hour, they have a right to expect any member of the dissenting minority which would acquit them of this charge to make his voice unmistakably heard I regret, of course, to have to tell so friendly a critic as Ebenstein that our opinions are farther apart than he had assumed...
...3. We urge nuclear disarmament or some form of control of nuclear weapons on the part of all nuclear powers, guaranteed by mutual inspection every inch of the way...
...I came to the conclusion that such action cannot be expected of modern man (and I am prepared to uphold this proposition even in the light of the Austrian events of 1934 and the Spanish events of 1936, to which Ebenstein refers), and that, moreover, a revolution undertaken merely to have history record the fact of resistance may well prove futile even in terms of its own purpose because it is too uncertain whether the historical record will do justice to heroes...
...This seems a great oversimplification of a very complex problem—as I doubt if the underdeveloped nations of the world would agree that their problem is low electrical generating capacity...
...I feel I have to correct the misunderstanding of my position as a matter of fairness to the Italian Socialists who conducted the struggle against Fascism in 1924...
Vol. 43 • October 1960 • No. 38
